Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi is a Roman Catholic cathedral in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was built by Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy between 1869 and 1886 on the site of an older adobe church, and it was designed in the Romanesque Revival style, dramatically contrasting it to surrounding adobe structures. In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI elevated the cathedral to a basilica.